ARCANE FORESTGet Lost in Worlds of Fantasy and Awe!Read 9 different first books from 9 different Fantasy (romance) series. We hope you enjoy the books you are about to read and meet some new characters to love!Book 1 by W.J. May – Rae of HopeBook 2 by Chrissy Peebles – Eternal VowsBook 3 by Kaitlyn Davis – The Golden CageBook 4 by C.J. Pinard – Enchanted ImmortalsBook 5 by Kristen Middleton -...

Killing vampires is Luke Irontree’s business, and business is good.Too good…After nearly 2,000 years, the immortal vampire hunter is exhausted. Alone in a world where everyone he knew and loved is dead, he struggles on because it’s all he knows. But when a wave of vampire attacks brings a dark pall over Portland, Luke is the only one who can stop them.The problem is, he let things go too long. Now he’s outnumbered, and the tables have turned – the h...

The New York Times bestselling author of the beloved classic How to Read Literature Like a Professor teaches you how to write everything from a report for your community association to a meaningful memoir in this masterful and engaging writing guide.Combing anecdotes and hard-won lessons from decades of teaching and writing—and invoking everyone from Hemingway to your third-grade teacher—retired professor Thomas C. Foster guides you through the basics of writing. W...

The Leviathan is the vast unity of the State. But how are unity, peace and security to be attained? Hobbes's answer is sovereignty, but the resurgence of interest today in Leviathan is due less to its answers than its methods. Hobbes sees politics as a science capable of the same axiomatic approach as geometry: he argues from first principles to human nature to politics.This book's appeal to the twentieth century lies not just in its elevation of politics to a science, but in its ov...

Thoroughly revised and expanded for a new generation of readers, this classic guide to enjoying literature to its fullest—a lively, enlightening, and entertaining introduction to the tools of literary analysis, covering a diverse range of writing and literary devices, including symbols, themes, and contexts—teaches you how to improve your reading comprehension and make your everyday reading experience richer and more rewarding.While books can be enjoyed for their basic stories, the...

Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism examines the persistence, transformation, and reinterpretation of sacred signs across religious traditions. Combining antiquarian inquiry, comparative religion, iconographic analysis, and polemical Victorian prose, the volume situates Christian emblems within a broader history of pagan visual culture. Its discussions of crosses, solar imagery, fertility symbols, and ritual objects underscore the complex traffic between devotion, art, myth, and i...

"Of more than one thousand battles fought during the war," William C. Davis notes, "a few have risen to lasting fascination and prominence, some even regarded as 'turning points.' The battles included in this book are those that caused the greatest casualties, produced the greatest feats of heroism, and won or lost major campaigns. They decided the course of the war in the East and the West, set the standard for valor and sacrifice, defined who the American soldier was to be in this war an...

He that is to govern a whole nation, must read in himself, not this, or that particular man; but mankind. Leviathan is both a magnificent literary achievement and the greatest work of political philosophy in the English language. Permanently challenging, it has found new applications and new refutations in every generation. Hobbes argues that human beings are first and foremost concerned with their own individual desires and fears. He shows that a conflict of each against every man can onl...

"In this wonderful book, Thomas Patterson effectively dethrones the concept of 'civilization' as an abstract good, transcending human society."--Martin Bernal Drawing on his extensive knowledge of early societies, Thomas C. Patterson shows how class, sexism, and racism have been integral to the appearance of "civilized" societies in Western Europe. He lays out clearly and simply how civilization, with its designs of "civilizing" and "being civilized," has been closely tie...

In 1945, Dietrich Bonhoeffer—a theologian and pastor—was executed by the Nazis for his resistance to their unspeakable crimes against humanity. He was only 39 years old when he died, but Bonhoeffer left behind volumes of work exploring theological and ethical themes that have now inspired multiple generations of scholars, students, pastors, and activists. This book highlights the ways Dietrich Bonhoeffer's work informs political theology and examines Bonhoeffer's contributions in three way...

As stated in the preface to the first edition, this book is intended to be a review and not a comprehensive textbook of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. The book covers only the highlights from the much more detailed knowledge that is usually found in textbooks and we recommend that the reader turn to several excellent texts for more detailed reference. The book is intended to help those who are studying for National Medical Board Examinations and for similar ex aminations in the Allied...

Mr. Baker's life is turned upside down one morning when a mysterious cowboy places a gun to his head. Mr. Baker is then given a choice--kill his wife or his daughter by midnight. If he doesn't choose one, the cowboy will kill them both. Mr. Baker now finds himself in a race against time to figure out what the hell is going on. Who is the cowboy? Why does he want to hurt Mr. Baker's family? If he doesn't solve the mystery in the next few hours, people are definitely going to die.